Twitter Roundup, Tuesday 11/17

Lots of tweets since Sunday's update.

• Boston arson deaths highlight gay domestic violence.
• Obama to Chinese Students: "I'm a big supporter of not restricting Internet use or access, Twitter."
  
• Breakthrough in Quantum Computing. Finally, things are gonna get fast.
• Mutant Genes may be key to a long life.
• Only 28% of Americans think Sarah Palin is ready to be President.
• Closeted gay Republican Gov. Charlie Crist's Florida Senate campaign floundering.
  
• Awesome hackers break into Holocaust denier's private e-mails and post them all over.
• Vote for New York City's amazing Ali Forney Center, which assists homeless LGBT kids. Help them win a big grant.
  
• Surprising- Beau Biden leads popular GOP Congressman Mike Castle in Delaware Senate race.
• Beyond Horrific: 19 year-old gay man found decapitated in Puerto Rico. A suspect was arrested today.
  
• My friend Jeremiah Miller leads an Obama In New York ('81-'85) walking tour. It seems very cool, watch the preview video.
• New Jaguar Supercomputer "blew away the competition" to become the fastest in world.
• America's first Cannabis Cafe opens in Portland. Thanks to Obama's Justice Department!
• Stats guru Nate Silver on why Sarah Palin will run for President in 2012. I really hope he's right, that would be such fun.
  
• Why we need health care reform: Uninsured patients twice as likely to die in the ER.
• The New York Observer makes the case for Star Trek to receive a Best Picture Oscar Nomination. I totally agree.
• BroadwaySpace picks their 30 Stars Under 30. Congrats to friends Michael Arden, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Allison Case, Baily Hanks, & Nick Blaemire.
• The $20 Billion in stimulus money for science the 'largest investment in research since Sputnik.'
• Unfriend is the word of the year.
• FCC asked to consider digital TV airwaves, accommodate growing use of mobile broadband.
• Gay couples sue government over Don't Ask, Don't Tell. I believe our clearest path to equality is through the courts.
• Evolution caught in the act (again) on the Galapogos Islands.
• Woodward's "unspecified techniques" against Iraqi insurgency in '07 revealed to be a cyber war. I've wondered this since he wrote about these tactics in The War Within.